List of Famous people named John

John Henninger Reagan was an American politician from the U.S. state of Texas. A Democrat, Reagan resigned from the U.S. House of Representatives when Texas seceded from the Union and joined the Confederate States of America. He served in the cabinet of Jefferson Davis as Postmaster General.

Sir John Heveningham was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1628 to 1629.

John Bell was a U.S. Representative from Ohio for two months in 1851, filling a vacancy created by his predecessor’s death.

John Joseph Frederick Otto Zardetti was a Roman Catholic priest and Bishop in both Europe and the United States during the 19th century. He was an Auxiliary Bishop of Dakota Territory under Bishop Martin Marty, the first Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Cloud, Minnesota, Archbishop of Bucharest, Romania, and Archbishop of Mocissus, Cappadocia. At the time of his death, he was allegedly being groomed to become the Papal Nuncio to Canada.

John Joseph Mitchell was a lawyer and U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.

John Alsop Jr. was an American merchant and politician from New York City during the American Revolution. He was a delegate for New York to the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1776.

John C. Gaeta is a designer and inventor best known for his work on the Matrix film trilogy, where he advanced methods and formats known as Bullet Time, Volumetric Cinematography and Universal Capture (UCAP). He is also known for exploring emergent and expressive new media platforms such as Photo Anime, NUI, HoloCinema and the Magicverse.

Lord John V of Werle[-Güstrow] was co-regent of Werle-Güstrow from 1365 until his death.

John Howard Lawson was an American writer, specializing in plays and screenplays. After starting with plays for theaters in New York City, he worked in Hollywood on writing for films. He was the first president of the Writers Guild of America, West after the Screen Writers Guild divided into two regional organizations.

John Blair was an American slave owner and politician who represented Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives.